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Title Everyday occupations : experiencing militarism in South Asia and the Middle East / edited by Kamala Visweswaran
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)
Series Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Contents Healing the forest / Cheran Rudhramoorthy -- Introduction : geographies of everyday occupation / Kamala Visweswaran -- Qırıx : an "inverted rhapsody" on Kurdish national struggle, gender, and everyday life in Diyarbakır / Serap Ruken Sengul -- The war zone in my heart : the occupation of Southern Sri Lanka / Sandya Hewamanne -- Grounding militarism : structures of feeling and force in Gilgit-Baltistan / Nosheen Ali -- Stateless citizens and menacing men : notes on the occupation of Palestinians inside Israel / Rhoda Kanaaneh -- Indigenous women and culture in the colonized Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Kabita Chakma and Glen Hill -- Death and life under occupation : space, violence, and memory in Kashmir / Mohamad Junaid -- The missing grave of Sheikh Said : Kurdish formations of memory, place, and sovereignty in Turkey / Hisyar Oszoy -- Afterword : refining the optic of occupation / Richard Falk -- Some day / Kabita Chakma
Summary This book engages visual culture and the ethnography of space, satire and parody, poetry, and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool, and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination
Analysis Anthropology
Folklore
Human Rights
Law
Linguistics
Political Science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Ethnic conflict -- Middle East
Ethnic conflict -- South Asia
Militarism -- Social aspects -- Middle East
Militarism -- Social aspects -- South Asia
Military occupation -- Social aspects -- Middle East
Military occupation -- Social aspects -- South Asia
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
Ethnic conflict
Militarism -- Social aspects
Military occupation -- Social aspects
Middle East
South Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Visweswaran, Kamala
LC no. 2012032310
ISBN 9780812207835
0812207831